St. Landry democrat., 1887-04-16
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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trating naval and military forces in the
port of Caracas, the Venezuelan capital.
| GENERAL w. P. EDGARTON, formerly
chief postal inspector at st. Louis and af-
| forwards transferred to Boston, from
| which point he was recently m owed to the
! Pennsylvania division, has resigned.
| Two freight trains were badly wrecked
in a collision at Bolivar, Pa, on the Penn
sylvania railroad on the 4th. Two cars of
! cotton caught fire and were entirely con-
sumed.
| The boiler in George Craw fords saw
| mill on the river bank below Mill Creek
| O., exploded on the 4th. 1t was thrown
high in the air and falling crushed a
shantyboat in the river, instantly killing
Mrs Lizzie Grant. Her hus band and her
mother-in- law were but few feet away
| but were unframed. James King, jeff
/ Vangerdcn, Lewis Edret ana Matthew
Asher employees of the mill, were all
| slightly hurt
In the municipal election in st. Louis on
the 5th the houors were nearly equally di-
vided. The Republicans elected five and
| the Democrats two members of the
| Council, and for the House sixteen Demo
Gratis and twelve Republicans were
elected.
|
nine explosion at Savanna, |. T., on the
! 9Th.
| The only State election in Wisconsin
was for associate justice of the Supreme
Court. Harlow S. Orion, Dem, was re-
elected without opposition.
THE election in Chicago on the 9Th re-
suited in the election of the entire Re-
| publican ticket with one exception.
Roches majority for mayor is %, PAL
FIVE negroes were lynche1 by a mob at
Yorkville, S. c., on the 5th.
SIX men were horribly burne on the 5th
| by an explosion Of molten metal at Pitts
burgh, Pa.
| The expulsion of Frenchmen from
Alsace-Lorraine continues.
| THEnew Austrian Minister was officially
presented to the President al Washington
| on the 5th.
TIE British steamer Carmona is given
| up at New York as lost, with nearly forty
seamen on board.
MUCH ill-feeliug exists in the French
Senate. Imperialists have been left off
revenue committees, and claim 1t was
done to prevent exposure Of Republican
frauds.
THE Missouri Pacific round-house at
Omaha. Neb, was burned on the 5th.
Four locomotives were destroyed.
INVESTIGATION of the failure Of the Mari
time Bank of New Brunswick show that
small boys were used as indorsers of pa
per obligations in carrying out the exten-
sivc bank swindles.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND has refused to
pardon Patrick Mccarthy, convicted OF
murder at Fort Smith, Ark, and he will
have to hang
REPORTS recently sent out from Wash
ington to the effect that it was definitely
decided to call an extra session Of Con-
gress are pronounced untrue.
| THE Secretary of the Treasury has de-
cided that National bank repositories are
not required to redeem trade dollars I'M
| der the recent act.
TIE Philadelphia police have received
| positive instructions to sec that the Sun
day and other moral reform laws are
strictly enforced.
THE Belgian Chamber Of Deputies has
passed, by vote of IS to 9, the bill per-
hitting the Free Congo state to issue
lottery loan to the amount of l5ooto,o0o
francs.
THE Spanish Consul at Hong-kong has
reused up the German ire. He attended a
banquet and expressed the hope that
France would soon have brilliant re-
venge. Now the German official organ
serves notice that Spain will hear from
| Bismarck.
TUESDAY, the 5th being the thirtieth an
niversary of the birth of Prince Alexan-
der Of Battenberg, every town in Bull
| garia and every branch of the Patriotic
| League sent congratulations to him.
QUEEN VICTORIA left Cannes for AK
! Les Baines on the evening of the 9Th.
There was an immense crowd at the rail
way station to witness her departure.
The English and French squadrons lying
at Cannes were Illuminated in honor of
the Queen.
/ PATRICK MCNAMARA, a coal HEAVIER, sur
rendered himself at Jersey City, N. j., on
the 5th, confessing that he had killed
| s'Big JaclS'' Murray, the peddler whose
death was previously reported. Mcnamara
claims to have acted in self-defense.
TIE President has appointed the follow
| ing Government directors Of the Union
Pacific Railroad Company: Frederick r
| Coudert, of New York; Franklin Mac
Weigh, of Chicago; Alexander Haskell, Of
| Columbia, s. c.; Marcus A. Hanna. of
Cleveland, O., and James w. Savage, of
! Omaha. Neb., all reappointments, their
former terms having expired.
| Noah HARPER, negro living nine miles
| east OF MechanlcDurg, u, peat MS Twelve
year-old child so brutally ON the 5tb, that
| she died within two hours. He placed
her body in box and was about to bury
her when discovered by ne1ghbors.
Harper fed and has not yet been capt
ured.
MRS MARY MCAvoY died in Lancaster,
Pa, on the night of the 4th, at the great age
| of one hundred and three years. She was
a native Of Ireland, and came to this coun-
try in the early part of the present cent
ury. She remembered distinctly the
stirring scenes of the Irish revolution of
1893
| A MAN named Hayes, of Hagerstown,
| Nd, killed burglar who had broken into
his store on the night of the 5sh.
| GREAT alarm exists in Hayti over the
recent threats from England.
! ARCHBISHOP LYNCH, of Toronto, rs out
| in a letter forbidding extravaganza at
| Catholic funaraIS haranfter